Sexy Snape

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 139566

>Elsye wrote:
Whoa!!! How did we end up with abused children here? I know Snape is
nasty, mean , savagely sadistic, but he is hardly comparable to a
child abuser! This is quite an unfair leap youre taking here IMO and
its not as if shes writing the books with abused children in mind.

Also I think that what JKR wants to show children is that just
because people are ugly and mean doesnt mean they do
not possess other worthy redeeming qualities

I think Julie summed it up very well when she wrote:

Another life lesson children learn when they mature into adults is
that there is more to a person than what is apparent on the surface,
and that there are often reasons behind a person's behavior. Knowing
why someone acts in a certain way (he was abused, experienced a
trauma, etc) does not excuse that person's bad behavior, but it does
allow one to understand and even empathize. (Harry finding out that
his father and Sirius did on at least one occasion bully Snape
is an example).


vmonte responds:
Ok, then tell me what those redeeming qualities are? What are they?
The above quote tells me nothing about Snape's redeeming qualities.



>vmonte:
Children really do know what this kind of teacher is all about. It's
the adults that are clueless.

>Elyse: Come now, adults are more capable than you give them credit
for surely? Not meaning to be sarcastic here, but in that case we
might as well turn the world government into primary schoolers' hands
and see the results...

vmonte :
Ok, don't take my word for it.

"What about Snape?
JKR: Snape is a very sadistic teacher, loosely based on a teacher I
myself had, I have to say. I think children are very aware and we are
kidding ourselves if we don't think that they are, that teachers do
sometimes abuse their power and this particular teacher does abuse
his power. He's not a particularly pleasant person at all..." 
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/1099-
connectiontransc.html

vmonte: Sadistic, abuses power, children are aware


Stephen Fry: Yes, and even in the books there is a certain flair.
Most characters like Snape are hard to love but there is a sort of
ambiguity – you can't quite decide - something sad about him – lonely
and it's fascinating when you think he's going to be the evil one a
party from Voldemort obviously in the first book then slowly you get
this idea he's not so bad after all.

JK Rowling: Yes but you shouldn't think him too nice. It is worth
keeping an eye on old Severus definitely!
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2003/0626-alberthall-fry.htm

vmonte:
Yeah he's interesting alright, but not nice.


One of our internet correspondents wondered if Snape is going to fall
in love.

JKR: (JKR laughs) Who on earth would want Snape in love with them?
That's a very horrible idea... 
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/1099-
connectiontransc.html

vmonte: No one would/should want Snape to be in love with them 
because it would be a horrible idea.

JKR:
"...I had an interesting discussion, I thought, with my editor Emma, 
about Draco. She said to me, "So, Malfoy can do Occlumency," which 
obviously Harry never mastered and has now pretty much given up on 
doing, or attempting. And she was querying this and wondering whether 
he should be as good as it, but I think Draco would be very gifted in 
Occlumency, unlike Harry. Harry's problem with it was always that his 
emotions were too near the surface and that he is in some ways too 
damaged. But he's also very in touch with his feelings about what's 
happened to him. He's not repressed, he's quite honest about facing 
them, and he couldn't suppress them, he couldn't suppress these 
memories. But I thought of Draco as someone who is very capable of 
compartmentalizing his life and his emotions, and always has done. So 
he's shut down his pity, enabling him to bully effectively. He's shut 
down compassion — how else would you become a Death Eater? So he 
suppresses virtually all of the good side of himself." (MN/TLC 2, 
pp16-17)

vmonte: 
Harry is damaged but in touch with his feelings--he's an honest 
person.

Being gifted in Occlumency seems to be a gift for the worst kinds of 
people--the people that can become Death Eaters.    

Vivian